1. No precise figures are available; this estimate is given in : The Movement of People in a Time of Crisis, in: and , eds.: The Muses Flee Hitler: Cultural Transfer and Adaptation 1930–1945. Washington, D. C. (Smithsonian Institution Press) 1983, p. 50.
2. The figure of 1000 scholars is a conservative estimate, as more than that many lost their academic positions immediately after the implementation of the Civil Service Law of April 7, 1933. See Alan Beyerchen: Anti-Intellectualism and the Cultural Decapitation of Germany under the Nazis, in J. C. Jackman/C.M. Borden (see ref. 1), p. 30.
3. The compelling characterization, „intellectual decapitation”, is Alan Beyerchen's (see note 2), p. 41. For the quotation see Alfred Kazin: The European Writers in Exile, in J.C. Jackman/C.M. Borden (see ref. 1), p. 124.
4. (see ref. 1), p. 50, gives the following immigration figures for Germans and Austrians: United States, about 132,000; all of Latin America, about 80,000 to 85,000; Great Britain, 72,000 including Czechs; Palestine/Israel, about 56,000 including 1,800 illegal immigrants; France, about 30,000 permanent refugees; Shanghai, about 17,000 from all countries of origin; Czechoslovakia, about 6,500; Switzerland and Holland, over 30,000 transients; South Africa, Canada, Austrialia, a few thousand each.
5. This figure is given in John M. Spalek (in collaboration with Adrienne Ash and Sandra H. Hawrylchak): Guide to the Archival Materials of the German-speaking Emigration to the United States after 1933. Charlottesville (University Press of Virginia) 1978, Preface, p. vii.